IMPORTANT NOTE: For info on how exactly the ratings are determined, please see our ratings page. If after reading that, you still want to vent in an email to us, feel free- but please understand that we simply can not possibly respond to every "our school should be rated higher than so-and-so" type email.

-As you'd imagine, playoff results (and in particular, championship results) are weighted much more heavily in determining a team's ratings than are regular-season results.
-On ratings pages, the season list of scores is shown beneath each team. "Good wins" (wins against a higher-rated opponent) are shown in blue; "bad losses" (losses to a lower-rated opponent) are shown in red. Games against non-U.S. opponents are a factor in the ratings as long as the out-of-country team has played at least one other game against U.S. teams. Failing that, there is no data to use as a basis for comparison.
-A team with a "0" rating is the average team- positive rated teams are above average, while negative ones are below average.
-Ratings listed here are rounded to the nearest tenth of a point, but teams are placed in order according to their exact rating.
-"Schedule Strength" is simply an average of the ratings of the teams that school has played.
-In order to maintain the integrity of our ratings, post-game (administrative/ineligible player) forfeits are recognized in win-loss records only. They do not affect the ratings of the teams involved. The only other type of forfeit we recognize are those involving league games after the league season has started (for standings fairness/balance). WE DO NOT award forfeits for cancelled games. Please do not contact us to try to convince us to give your team a win in these situations. Thank you for your understanding.